Pick of the day

Somewhere in the multiverse, down another leg of time's ever-forking trou- sers, Jacques Tati became not an actor and director, the star of My Uncle and Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, but a picture- framer. That was the fate mapped out for him in the 1920s, when his parents sent him to Britain to learn the family business. But Tati discovered rugby and tennis, and his impressions of an amateur trying to master these sports so amused his friends that he developed a comedy routine. Once he broke into film, his gift for slapstick influenced everyone from Truffaut to Eric Sykes.

Rory Bremner celebrates his centenary in Jacques Tati: Everyman Magnified (11.30am, Radio 4), with the help of Sykes, Rowan Atkinson and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Elsewhere, an elderly woman is facing the biggest test of her life. Cassie is in a nursing home for an "assessment". Her son thinks she can no longer look after herself, but she is determined to "pass" and return home. Doreen Keogh stars in Bernard MacLaverty's play The Woman from the North (2.15pm, Radio 4).